THE MEANING OF MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES IN KINDERGARTEN

V diplomskem delu z naslovom Pomen gibalnih aktivnosti v vrtcu smo želeli ugotoviti, kako pogosto, kdaj in zakaj so vzgojiteljice in pomočnice vzgojiteljic športno ne/aktivne v svojem prostem času. Ali se zavedajo pomembnosti gibalnih aktivnosti v vrtcu in kakšen pomen pripisujejo določenim vsebinam gibalnih dejavnosti v vrtcu. Podatke smo pridobili z anketiranjem 100 zaposlenih vzgojiteljic in pomočnic vzgojiteljic, ki delajo v vrtcih v okolici Maribora. Vprašanja so bila povezana z gibanjem zaposlenih ter s pomenom gibanja skupaj z otroki. V teoretičnem delu je predstavljen pomen gibalnih dejavnosti za celostni razvoj otroka, vpliv redne gibalne dejavnosti na gibalni in telesni razvoj otroka, področje gibanje v kurikulumu, vsebine gibalnih dejavnosti v vrtcu in dosedanje raziskave in ugotovitve. Rezultati empiričnega dela kažejo, da se starejše vzgojiteljice in pomočnice v povprečju gibajo več kot mlajše. Športno aktivnejše vzgojiteljice in pomočnice, izvajajo v vrtcu več raznovrstnih športnih dejavnosti.In the diploma entitled The meaning of movement activities in kindergarten we wanted to find out how often, when and why, the educators and their assistants are sports in/active in their free time. Do they realize how important movement activities in kindergarten are, and what kind of meaning they assign to specific contents of movement activities in kindergarten. We got the data from interviewing 100 working educators and assistant educators that work in kindergartens in the outskirts of Maribor. Questions were about the exercises of working people and the meaning of exercise together with their children. In the theoretical part we found out about the meaning of movement activities for integrated development of a child, the effect of regular movement activities on movement and physical development of a child, the field of movement in the curriculum, the content of movement activities in kindergarten and about existing research and findings. The results of empiric part show that older educators and assistant educators are in average more active than the younger ones. More active educators and assistants carry out more diverse sports activities in kindergarten